Yeah, I don’t get the hate. Sega Rally Revo is the best game in the series, and this is from someone who bought the limited edition Sega Rally 2006 solely to get the arcade original bonus. It’s a beautiful and fantastic racer which exceeds every Sega Rally except the original game’s soundtrack (thankfully, the 360’s custom soundtrack feature makes that an easy fix).

I tried the demo of ‘revo’ on 360 and I was utterly shit at it.
I’m never particularly good at racing games but this was another level entirely.
Still, if I see it going for a couple of quid I’ll probably pick it up to see if the full game’s any easier.
Undecided about ‘online arcade’ version. Can’t be arsed paying to play online so depends on whether it has any decent offline play. And whether it’s less than 800 points (doubtful). Much prefer to spent 80pts on an indie shootemup than 10 times or more on something licensed and not as fun.

You say that like it’s a bad thing…
I enjoyed Allstars racing.
The wife did as well. Split-screen fun all round.
Even played online against daughter and her boyfriend.
More of this kind of thing please.

My main issue with All-Stars racing is the complete lack of depth in the racing mechanics, stripping all that was good in Outrun 2 out, in favour of the “press a shoulder button to insta-drift” system, which I assume was added to make it more like Mario Kart.

Menstski, like I said – rubbish at racing games. I’d rather that elusive element ‘fun’ than accuracy at simulating the driving experience. That way leads to the tedium of stuff like GT5.
a=accelerate
b=brake (never used)
x=fire
y=boost
Think that pretty much covers it.
Oh yeah, shoulder buttons = trigger powerslide

It was all invisible walls and bouncing around without any feeling of skill being involved.

This is how most people dismissed the original Sega Rally Championship. :/

Sad to see so many dismiss a game they should love. People complain that Sega doesn’t provide for them, yet when it does, fans will find a reason to hate, even when those reasons need to be pulled from thin air. :( Really, it’s a brilliant game. It deserves better.

The difference was, in the original you had to avoid the walls else it was Game Over Yeah. In this one you could just bounce off them and continue flailing along in the vague direction of the road, like the sort of skill-less modern game you might play by waving a stick at your television.

I really did try to like it, I wanted to like it, but had more fun playing the likes of DIRT and GRID (this was back when I had to play games as a job and I was the “driving games person” for a couple of years. Although someone else reviewed this one, luckily).